Deleuze Connections

The first volume to place Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy in the context of contemporary fascism

• Brings Deleuze to contemporary fascism, as opposed to earlier publications on Deleuze which dealt with historical fascism
• Uses case studies that are grounded in space and time, within contemporary Spain, Italy and Greece
• Presents fascism as more than just a political theory
• Addressing patriarchal fascism demonstrates that fascism is sexualized and genderized, which is highly relevant in the age of #metoo, Black Lives Matter and rising populism
• Critiques patriarchal fascism in an affirmative manner, offering insights for intervention and searching for new openings

A range of international contributors uncover and reflect upon the anti- and non-fascist ethics situated in Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical framework and that of the scholarship that followed after. The 'new philosophy' that Deleuze and Guattari propose to us is engaged and situated and it asks us to map urgent issues, not by opposing ourselves to it, but by mapping how it is part of the everyday, and of ourselves. The global rise of fascism today demands a rigid and careful analysis. The concepts and themes that Deleuze (and Guattari) handed to us in their extensive oeuvre can be of immense help in capturing its micropolitics and macropolitics.

All of the contributions in this volume have a keen eye on the practices of fascism today, meaning that they all show us, very much in line with Deleuze's thinking, how fascism works. The book is organized in three parts. The first part (21st century fascisms) focuses on the global threats technologies and algorithmic realities; the second part (situated fascisms) holds analyses of fascisms at work in different parts of the contemporary world; the third part deals with patriarchal fascism and offers concrete case-studies of sexualized and genderized modes of oppression.

Considers the contribution of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical ideas in forging a critique of global terror and counter-terror

• Contains a new philosophical analysis of global terror and state reactions, as well as military aggression
• Argues for a micro-level understanding of terror and counter-terror from the perspective of axiomatic thinking on power, violence and structures of dominations
• Considers different aspects of terror and analyses the basic grammar of violence that includes brutalities inherent in non-religious terror like market terror, cyber terror and social terror

What can philosophy offer when we suffer from brutal acts of terror and barbarous acts of counter-terror? Is the very grammar of the network of terror and anti-terror moves locked in the same ideology of power and state-ism that demands a deeper micro-analysis of human fetish for coercion and cruelty? Do we need schizoanalysis of the neurosis of terror and counter-terror where the work of Deleuze and Guattari can offer insight?

This collection of essays considers the contribution of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical ideas in forging a critique of global terror and counter-terror. Deleuze`s concept of nomadic thought provides a starting point for this fetish for coercion and terrorizing power. The contributors identify areas of political terror, state terror, capitalist corporate terror, religious terror, cyber-terror, social terror and cultural terror to enable the inherent power structure within all forms of terror to be unpacked.

Engages with the post-Darwinian biology central to Deleuze and Guattari’s ecological thought

• Finds a strong convergence in Deleuze and Guattari’s work with new directions in evolutionary theory
• Thinking about the symbiosis between philosophy and science in new ways
• Summarises, interprets and evaluates of Deleuze’s relationship to evolutionary theory, from Darwin through Ruyer
• Resists a straightforward characterisation of Deleuze as a critic of evolution, instead looking at his debt to – and his inheritance, reconfiguration and anticipation of – a number of tendencies integral to evolutionary thought, both in its historical and emerging dimensions

Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory gathers together contributions by many of the central theorists in Deleuze studies who have led the way in breaking down the boundaries between philosophical and biological research. They focus on the significance of Deleuze and Guattari’s engagements with evolutionary theory across the full range of their work, from the interpretation of Darwin in Difference and Repetition to the symbiotic alliances of wasp and orchid in A Thousand Plateaus. In this way, they explore the anthropological, social and biopolitical significance of the convergences and divergences between philosophy and evolutionary science.

Contributors

Barry Allen, McMaster University, Canada.

Michael James Bennett, University of King’s College in Halifax, Canada.

Claire Colebrook, Penn State University, USA

Erin Hortle, University of Tasmania, USA.

Paul-Antoine Miquel, University of Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès, France.

Johan Normark, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Tano S. Posteraro, Penn State University, USA.

Jon Roffe, Deakin University and Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Australia.

Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University, USA.

Hannah Stark, University of Tasmania, Australia.

The first collection of essays to focus on Deleuze and Guattari’s writing on children

This collection applies the characterisations of children and childhood made in Deleuze and Guattari‘s work to concerns that have shaped our idea of the child. Bringing together established and new voices, the authors cover philosophy, literature, religious studies, education, sociology and film studies.

These essays question the popular idea that children are innocent adults-in-the-making. They consider aspects of children's lives such as time, language, gender, affect, religion, atmosphere and schooling. As a whole, this book critically interrogates the pervasive interest in the teleology of upward growth of the child.

Key Features

• Rethinks traditional approaches to children and childhood, recognising their consequences for the materialist child and adult–child relations
• Approaches the figurations of children and childhood in discourses such as cultural studies, queer studies, language studies, education, sociology, psychoanalysis, religion, and economics through the lens of Deleuze and Guattari
• Applies new approaches to children through Deleuze and Guattari, gaining awareness about our default attitudes and assumptions about children and childhood

Contributors

• Markus P.J. Bohlmann, Seneca College, Canada
• Mat Fournier, Ithaca College, USA
• Anna Hickey-Moody, RMIT University, Australia
• Jane Newland, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
• Helen Palmer, Kingston University London, UK
• Anna Powell, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Jon Roffe, UNSW, Australia
• Chris Stover, Arizona State University, USA
• Kenneth Surin, Duke University, USA
• Ian Thomas, Cardiff University, UK

Explores Deleuze and Guattari’s own diverse conceptions of anarchism and expands it in the spirit of their philosophy

This collection of 13 essays addresses and explores Deleuze and Guattari’s relationship to the notion of anarchism: in the diverse ways that they conceived of and referred to it throughout their work, and also more broadly in terms of the spirit of their philosophy and in their critique of capitalism and the State.

Both Deleuze and Guattari were deeply affected by the events of May ’68 and an anarchist sensibility permeates their philosophy. However, they never explicitly sustained a discussion of anarchism in their work. Their concept of anarchism is diverse and they referred to in very different senses throughout their writings. This is the first collection to bring Deleuze and Guattari together with anarchism in a focused and sustained way.

Key Features

• The only book to focus exclusively on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and anarchism
• Includes an anthropological perspective, a line of enquiry pioneered by Pierre Clastres, referred to by Deleuze and Guattari and recently renewed by contemporary anthropologists such as Eduardo Vivieros de Castro and Eduardo Kohn
• Provides historical overviews alongside current anarchist applications of Deleuze and Guattari’s work

Contributors

Jesse Cohn, Purdue University Northwest, USA.

Aragorn Eloff, independent researcher and Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies in Africa.

Elmo Feiten, independent researcher.

Chantelle Gray van Heerden, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa.

Christoph Hubatschke, University of Vienna, Austria.

Nathan Jun, Midwestern State University, USA.

Gregory Kalyniuk, independent researcher.

Thomas Nail, University of Denver, USA.

Paul Raekstad, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Andrew Stones, University of Warwick, UK.

Alejandro de la Torre Hernández, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico

Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre, University of Texas, Austin.

Natascia Tose, independent researcher.

Elizabet Vasileva, Loughborough University, UK. "

The first volume to address the animal in Deleuze’s work, looking at philosophy, aesthetics and ethics

Becoming-animal is a key concept for Deleuze and Guattari; the ambiguous idea of the animal as human and nonhuman life infiltrates all of Deleuze’s work. These 16 essays apply Deleuze’s work to analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal and critiques the centrality of the human. This collection creates new questions about what the age of the Anthropocene means by ‘animal’ and analyses and explores examples of the unclear boundaries between human and animal.

Key Features

• Establishes new approaches for future readings of animality in Deleuze across a variety of fields
• Makes Deleuze contemporary and relevant for arguably one of the most crucial and foregrounded fields in philosophy: human–animal studies in the age of the Anthropocene
• Contributors include John Ó Maoilearca, Charles Stivale and Joanna Bednarek

Notes on Contributors

Joanna Bednarek, philosopher, translator and writer.

Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia, USA.

Edward Campbell, University of Aberdeen.

Colin Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Gary Genosko, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada.

renée c. hoogland, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.

Zach Horton, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University, USA.

Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

John Ó Maoilearca, Kingston University London, UK.

Nur Ozgenalp, Aki-ArtEZ Enschede, SAE Institute Netherlands, Amsterdam University College and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, The Netherlands.

Serazer Pekerman, University of St Andrews, UK.

Laurence A. Rickels, Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Germany, and European Graduate School, Switzerland.

Dennis Rothermel, Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at California State University, Chico, USA.

Charles J. Stivale, Distinguished Professor of French at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.

Uses the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to interrogate what cities can do

Defining the lives of a majority of the world’s population, the question of ‘the city’ has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time – uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research.

Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute ‘the city’ today.

Dispelling the old question of what the city is, this collection provides a nuanced mapping of situations emerging in concrete urban settings across the globe, ranging from the ‘laboratory urbanism' of an Austrian ski resort and a ‘sustainable’ Swedish shopping mall to the ‘urbicidal’ refurbishments of Haifa.

Notes on Contributors

Ronnen Ben-Arie, Tel-Aviv University and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.

Marc Boumeester, AKI ArtEZ Academy for Art & Design, Netherlands.

Magnus Eriksson, Lund University, Sweden, University of Macerata, Italy and the Interactive Institute, Sweden.

Ignacio Farías, Technische Universität München, Germany.

Hélène Frichot, KTH School of Architecture, Sweden, and RMIT University, Australia.

Catharina Gabrielsson, KTH School of Architecture and Konstfack, Sweden.

Gary Genosko, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada.

Maria Hellström Reimer, Malmö University and the Swedish Design Faculty for Design Research and Research Education, Sweden

Jean Hillier, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Stefan Höhne, TU Berlin, Germany.

Louise Beltzung Horvath, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

Michele Lancione, University of Cambridge, UK.

Janet McGaw, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Markus Maicher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

Jonathan Metzger, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden.

Karl Palmås, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Mark Purcell, University of Washington, USA.

Andrej Radman, TU Delft, Netherlands.

AbdouMaliq Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany; Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; University of Cape Town, South Africa; Rujak Center for Urban Studies, Indonesia and University of Tarumanagara, Indonesia.

Fredrika Spindler, Södertörn University, Sweden.

Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Södertörn University, Sweden.

An interrogation of the theory and practice of design through the thought of Gilles Deleuze

Read the introduction online for free (pdf)

Whether we are dealing with products or scenarios, packaging or experiences, territories or digital platforms, design is never a thing but a process of change, invention and speculation that always has material, tangible implications that affect behaviours and lives.

Drawing on a range of contributors, case studies and examples, this book examines ways in which we can think about design through Deleuze, and how Deleuze's thought can be experimented upon and re-designed to produce new concepts. This book taps into the emerging networks between philosophy as an act of inventing concepts and design as the process of inventing the world.

List of Contributors

Betti Marenko

Jamie Brassett

Manola Antonioli

Anne Sauvagnargues

T. Hugh Crawford

Betti Marenko

Derek Hales

Vincent Beaubois

John O’Reilly

Petra Hroch

Critiques the legacy and ongoing influence of Deleuze on the discipline and practice of architecture

This collection looks critically at how Deleuze challenges architecture as a discipline, how architecture contributes to philosophy and how we can come to understand the complex politics of space of our increasingly networked world.

Since the 1980s, Deleuze’s philosophy has fuelled a generation of architectural thinking, and can be seen in the design of a global range of contemporary built environments. His work has also alerted architecture to crucial ecological, political and social problems that the discipline needs to reconcile.

Key Features

• 15 essays by interdisciplinary scholars including John Rajchman, Elizabeth Grosz and Brian Massumi
• Shows Deleuze’s influence on the emerging biotechnological paradigm and new practices of participatory design
• Engages with contemporary approaches to the theory and practice of architecture to provide radical agendas for the practice of Deleuzian philosophy

List of Contributors

• Karen Burns, University of Melbourne
• Deborah Hauptman, Delft University of Technology
• Andrej Radman, Delft University of Technology
• Marko Jobst, University of Greenwich
• Hélène Frichot, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
• Bernard Cache, Independent architect and furniture designer
• Mike Hale, Architect at Archispace
• Kim Dovey, University of Melbourne
• Catharina Gabrielsson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
• Cameron Duff, Monash University
• Andrew Ballantyne, Newcastle University, UK
• Adrian Parr, University of Cincinnati
• Chris Smith, University of Sydney
• Stephen Loo, University of Tasmania
• Simone Brott, Queensland University of Technology
• Doina Petrescu, University of Sheffield
• Constantin Petcou, University of Sheffield
• Anne Querrien, University of Sheffield

How Deleuze’s philosophy informs the interdisciplinary and multi-faceted problematic of education

These 13 essays address the broad territory of educational theory and philosophy of education. Moving from the formal to post-formal mode of education, the contributors explore education as an experimental and experiential process of becoming grounded in life that represents the becoming-Other of Deleuze’s thought.

Key Features

• Contributors include Ronald Bogue and James Williams
• Addresses contemporary debates on the conceptualisation of teaching & learning, ethics, social experience & educational futures, subjectivity & creativity, pedagogy and literacy, mathematics, arts & science education

Shows how Deleuze's philosophy is shaking up research in the humanities and social sciences

Deleuzian thinking is having a significant impact on research practices in the Social Sciences not least because one of its key implications is the demand to break down the false divide between theory and practice. This book brings together international academics from a range of Social Science and Humanities disciplines to reflect on how Deleuze's philosophy is opening up and shaping methodologies and practices of empirical research.

Key features

• Contributors from fields throughout the social sciences demonstrate how engaging with Deleuze’s work is reshaping their research processQuestions the relationship between theory and methodology
• Explores the conditions under which empirical research is conducted
• Considers the effects/affects of research

Contributors

Alecia Youngblood Jackson • Anna Hickey-Moody • Carol Taylor • David Mellor • David R. Cole • Emma Renold • Jamie Lorimer • Jessica Ringrose • Lisa A. Mazzei • Maggie MacLure • Mindy Blaise • Rebecca Coleman • Sarah Dyke • Silvia M. Grinberg

The first collection to theorise race and racism through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

In this volume, an international and multidisciplinary team of scholars inaugurates the Deleuzian study of race through a wide-ranging and evocative array of case studies.

Deleuze and Guattari provided new concepts of how humans are differentiated, through processes of state formation, capitalism, madness and desire. While sexual difference has received much attention in Deleuze studies, racial difference is a thornier problematic. As this collection of essays shows, Deleuze and Guattari had extremely original things to say about race, and the politics of phenotype and origin is never far from any engaged consideration of how the world works.

Key Features

• Unpacks the implicit and explicit references to race across Deleuze’s body of work, with a special focus on the Capitalism and Schizophrenia works written with Guattari
• Couples Deleuze with other theorists of race, such as Foucault, Butler and Gilroy
• Draws examples from the arts, current affairs and history
• Contributors include Claire Colebrook, John E. Drabinski, Ian Buchanan and Laura U. Marks

Your first reference point to find out about Deleuze's philosophy of law

This collection of 11 essays offers insights into Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of law, investigating new forms of politics, economics and society. It explores the features of Deleuze's universal jurisprudence, the mutual becoming of law and philosophy and reveals law as the most progressive and experimental force of the Modern Age.

Key features

• Explores the connections between law and other disciplines, including literature, the history of philosophy, political theory and geography
• Proposes several entirely new theories of Deleuze’s relationship to law
• Contributors are from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and include academics from British, American and Australian law schools

A wide-ranging collection of essays on the film-philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

Deleuze and Film explores how different films from around the world 'think' about topics like history, national identity, geopolitics, ethics, gender, genre, affect, religion, surveillance culture, digital aesthetics and the body. Mapping the global diversity of this cinematic thinking, this book greatly expands upon the range of films discussed in Deleuze's Cinema books.

Key Features

• Analyses several Asian films, including Japan's most famous monster movie Godzilla, the colourful Thai western Tears of the Black Tiger, the South Korean road movie Traces of Love and the Iranian comedy The Lizard
• Discusses American film noir, recent European art films such as Red Road and The Lives of Others and Hollywood CGI Blockbusters including Hellboy and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Includes a dedicated chapter on the animated documentary Waltz with Bashir
• Studies host of different directors from Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Baz Luhrmann

Applies Deleuze's philosophical ideas, such as the body-machine and becoming, to sex

These 12 new essays develop a fresh philosophical approach to the study of sex and sexuality as practice. The contributors pursue the restricting as well as the liberating force of sex in relation to a spread of themes and subjects including the limits of the human, bacteria, death, disability and animality.

Concepts such as ethics, values, and normativity play a crucial – if subtle and easily overlooked – role in Deleuze’s overall philosophical project. The essays in this collection uncover and explore the ethical dimension of Deleuzian philosophy along diverse trajectories and, in so doing, endeavour to reclaim that philosophy as moral philosophy.

A collection of essays on the approaches and applications of Deleuze's philosophy to the body

Using a variety of contemporary cultural, scientific and philosophical lines of enquiry, the contributors produce a truly multidisciplinary view of the Deleuzian body, inviting us to look afresh at art, movement and literature.

The Deleuzian body is not necessarily a human body, but the lines of enquiry here all illuminate the idea of the human body and thinking about formation, origins and becoming in relation to power, creativity and affect.

Key features

• Brings a new perspective to Spinozan and Nietzschean ideas of the body
• Contributors include Ella Brians, Claire Colebrook, Rebecca Coleman, Anna Cutler, Patricia MacCormack, Iain MacKenzie, John Protevi, Peta Malins, Philipa Rothfield and Nathan Widder
• Of interest to those concerned with theories of the body and affectivity, and those interested in performance arts, film and contemporary culture

What is at stake for contemporary art in the take up of Deleuze and Guattari's thought? What are the limits and possibilities of this take up? To address these questions, this book presents a series of inflections that explore the connection between these two fields. The topics studied range from the political and the expanded 'aesthetic paradigm' of art practice today, to specific scenes and encounters and the question of technology in relation to art.

These essays have been written by philosophers and artists working at the cutting edge of this new area, including writers from outside the Anglo-American tradition. The contributors include Gustavo Chirolla Ospina, Suely Rolnik, Gerald Raunig, Eric Alliez, Maurizio Lazzarato, Jussi Parikka, Johnny Golding, David Burrows, Robert Garnett, Edgar Schmitz, Claudia Mongini, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Barbara Bolt, Neil Chapman and Ola Stahl.

This is the first collection of essays bringing together Deleuzian philosophy and postcolonial theory. Bignall and Patton assemble some of the world's leading figures in these fields - including Reda Bensmaïa, Timothy Bewes, Rey Chow, Philip Leonard, Nick Nesbitt, John K. Noyes, Patricia Pisters, Marcelo Svirsky and Simon Tormey - to explore rich linkages between two previously unrelated areas of study.

They deal with colonial and postcolonial social, cultural and political issues in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia and Palestine. Topics include colonial government, nation building and ethics in the contemporary context of globalisation and decolonisation; issues relating to resistance, transformation and agency; and questions of 'representation' and discursive power as practiced through postcolonial art, cinema and literature.

This book constitutes a timely intervention to debates in poststructuralist, postcolonial and postmodern studies. It will be of interest to students in cultural studies, cinema and film studies, languages and literature, political and postcolonial studies, critical theory, social and political philosophy.

Was performance important to Deleuze? Is Deleuze important to performance; to its practical, as well as theoretical, research? What are the implications of Deleuze's philosophy of difference, process and becoming, for Performance Studies, a field in which many continue to privilege the notion of performance as representation, as anchored by its imitation of an identity: 'the world', 'the play', 'the self'?

Deleuze and Performance is a collection of new essays dedicated to Deleuze's writing on theatre and to the productivity of his philosophy for (re)thinking performance. This book provides rigorous analyses of Deleuze's writings on theatre practitioners such as Artaud, Beckett and Carmelo Bene, as well as offering innovative readings of historical and contemporary performance including performance art, dance, new media performance, theatre and opera, which use Deleuze's concepts in exciting new ways. Can philosophy follow Deleuze in overcoming the antitheatrical tradition embedded in its history, perhaps even reconsidering what it means to think in the light of the embodied insights of performance's practitioners? Experts from the fields of Performance Studies and Deleuze Studies come together in this volume and strive to examine these and other issues in a manner that will be challenging, yet accessible to students and established scholars alike.

Laura Cull is a PhD candidate in Drama at the University of Exeter, a part time lecturer in Performance at Northumbria University and Chair of the PSi Performance and Philosophy working group. She is also an artist, exhibiting internationally as an individual and as a member of the collective, SpRoUt.

Despite the fact that time, evolution, becoming and genealogy are central concepts in Deleuze's work, there has been no sustained study of his philosophy in relation to the question of history. This book aims to open up Deleuze's relevance to those working in history, the history of ideas, science studies, evolutionary psychology, history of philosophy and interdisciplinary projects inflected by historical problems.

The essays in this volume (all by internationally recognised Deleuze scholars) cover all aspects of Deleuze's philosophy and its relation to history, ranging from the application of Deleuze's philosophy to historical method, Deleuze's own use of the history of philosophy, his interpretations of other historical thinkers (such as Hume and Nietzsche) and the complex theories of time and evolution in his work.

Contributors include: Paul Patton, Manuel DeLanda, John Protevi, Ian Buchanan, Tim Flanagan, James Williams, Eve Bischoff, Jay Lampert.

This exciting collection of work introduces a major shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a radical new conception of bodily materialism. Moving away from the established path known as queer theory, itsuggests an alternative to Butler's matter/representation binary. It thus dares to askhow to think sexuality and sex outside the discursive and linguistic context that hascome to dominate contemporary research in social sciences and humanities.

Deleuze and Queer Theory is a provocative and often militant collection that explores a diverse range of themes including: the revisiting of the term 'queer'; a rethinking of the sex-gender distinction as being implied in Queer Theory; an exploration of queer temporalities; the non/re-reading of the homosexual body/desire and the becoming-queer of the Deleuze/Guattari philosophy. It will be essential reading for anyone interested not just in Deleuze's and Guattari's philosophy, but also in the fields of sexuality, gender and feminist theory.

Explores how Deleuze's philosophy can help us to understand our digital and biotechnological futures

In a world where our lives are increasingly mediated by technologies it is surprising that more attention is not paid to the work of Gilles Deleuze. This is especially strange given Deleuze's often explicit focus and reliance on the machine and the technological. This volume offers readers a collective and determined effort to explore not only the usefulness of key ideas of Deleuze in thinking about our new digital and biotechnological future but, also aims to take seriously a style of thinking that negotiates between philosophy, science and art.This exciting collection of essays will be of relevance not only to scholars and students interested in the work of Deleuze but, also, to those interested in coming to terms with what might seem an increasing dominance of technology in day to day living.

Contributors

William Bogard, Abigail Bray, Ian Buchanan, Verena Conley, Ian Cook, Tauel Harper, Timothy Murray, Saul Newman, Luciana Parisi, Patricia Pisters, Mark Poster, Horst Ruthrof, David Savat, Bent Meier Sørensen and Eugene Thacker.

This volume in the Deleuze Connections series debates and extends Deleuze's political thought through engagement with contemporary political events and concepts.

Against recent critique of Deleuze as a non-political thinker, this book explores the specific innovations and interventions that Deleuze's profoundly political concepts bring to political thought and practice. The contributors use Deleuze's dynamic theoretical apparatus to engage with contemporary political problems, themes and possibilities, including micropolitics, cynicism, war, democracy, ethnicity, friendship, revolution, power, fascism, militancy, and fabulation. Approaching Deleuze's politics from the disciplines of political theory, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, and sociology, the book is designed to appeal to a diverse audience.

The essays in this volume focus on three key issues

• The ontology of Deleuze's political philosophy
• The philosophical debate between Deleuze and contemporary critical theory
• The application of Deleuze's political philosophy to real-world events

Constantin Boundas has gathered together recent scholarship on Deleuze's philosophy by an acclaimed line-up of international contributors, all of whom seek to provide new and previously unexplored theoretical terrains that will be of interest to both the Deleuze specialist and student alike. Three of the essays are by key French Deleuzians whose work is not widely available in translation.

This enticing collection is essential reading for anyone interested not just in Deleuze but in the history of philosophical ideas.

Contributors include: Zsuzsa Baross, Veronique Bergen, Ronald Bogue, Bruce Baugh, Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Bela Egyed, Philippe Mengue, Dorothea Olkowski, Davide Panagia, Daniel W. Smith, Jeremie Valentin, Arnaud Villani.

This volume:

• includes an extended introduction to the philosophy of Deleuze which can be used by students and lecturers alike
• addresses problems and issues in Deleuze's philosophy that have not yet been discussed
• presents for the first time to English readers works by leading French commentators including Veronique Bergen, Philippe Mengue and Arnaud Villani
• includes contributions from first-rate Deleuze scholars.

The twelve new essays in this volume use a contemporary context to think through and with Deleuze. Engaging the here and now, the contributors use the Deleuzian theoretical apparatus to think about issues such as military activity in the Middle East, refugees, terrorism, information and communication, and the State. The book is aimed both at specialists of Deleuze and those who are unfamiliar with his work but who are interested in current affairs. Incorporating political theory and philosophy, culture studies, sociology, international studies, and Middle Eastern studies, the book is designed to appeal to a wide audience.

Contributors include: Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Verena Conley, Eugene Holland, John Marks, Paul Patton, Patricia Pisters, Laurence J. Silberstein, Kenneth Surin and Nicholas Thoburn.

Deleuze and the Contemporary World represents:

• a fresh perspective on current affairs
• a transdisciplinary response to the contemporary world
• a book that puts the concepts of Deleuze to work

The first book to focus on the implications of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's thinking on the social sciences and organisation

This book is concerned with the most basic notions of 'the social'. It seeks both to comprehend the 'multiplicity' of the social - in Deleuzian terms, the 'becoming' of the social itself; and it seeks to develop a new social analytical practice. Each of the newly commissioned chapters aims to show the strength of as well as practice the radicalism of a Deleuzian and Guattarian approach to social science and organisation studies.

Deleuze and the Social is a book about order, subjectivity, art, capitalism and the construction of a social ontology. It avoids scholasticism by foregrounding its authors' shared concern for practical issues. How is social order constituted? How is resistance possible between the rush of capitalism and the overcoding of the State? How are thinking and living possible?

Deleuze and the Social raises these questions and many more.

The international team of authors includes Eric Alliez, Maurizio Lazzarato, Eugene Holland, Paul Patton, Manuel DeLanda and Ian Buchanan.

Gilles Deleuze was arguably the twentieth century's most spatial philosopher - not only did he contribute a plethora of new concepts to engage space, space was his very means of doing philosophy. He said everything takes place on a plane of immanence, envisaging a vast desert-like space populated by concepts moving about like nomads. Deleuze made philosophy spatial and gave us the concepts of smooth and striated, nomadic and sedentary, deterritorialization and reterritorialization, the fold, as well as many others to enable us to think spatially.

This collection takes up the challenge of thinking spatially by exploring Deleuze's spatial concepts in applied contexts: architecture, cinema, urban planning, political philosophy and metaphysics. In doing so, it brings together some of the most accomplished Deleuze scholars writing today - Réda Bensmaîa, Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, Tom Conley, Manuel DeLanda, Gary Genosko, Gregg Lambert and Nigel Thrift.

A volume in the Deleuze Connections series, edited by Ian Buchanan. Other titles in the series include Deleuze and Feminist Theory, Deleuze and Literature, Deleuze and Music, and Deleuze and Geophilosophy.

Key Features

• The first book of critical commentary on the diverse intellectual, philosophical, artistic and architectural responses Deleuze's work on space has provoked in the past decade
• Includes work from leading figures in the field of Deleuze studies and introduces authoritative new voices
• Students and scholars in the fields of art, architecture, urban studies and philosophy will find this an invaluable guide to the work of an author whose impact is already substantial and is likely to grow in the years to come
• Written in a lucid, introductory style that will appeal to non-specialists

What would a Deleuzian music philosophy be like? For Deleuze, music informed his work on several levels. He did not merely write about music, it formed part of his thinking.

Deleuze and Music is the first volume to explore Deleuze's ideas from the perspective of music and sound. Music is central to Deleuze's work from Difference and Repetition and the Logic of Sense to Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature and A Thousand Plateaus (both written with Félix Guattari), music and sound-based problems contribute a great deal to the originality and singularity of his thought.

The essays in this volume explore a variety of these problems and their relevance to key debates in a number of areas including ethics, aesthetics, politics, epistemology and the history of ideas. They collectively demonstrate how music functions in Deleuze's work, exploring how at key stages in his thought ideas of melody, rhythm, harmony, counterpoint and the refrain provide the frame of reference for his immanent ontology, his Spinozist ethology and his (and Guattari's) politics of the 'people yet to come'. Furthermore, they show how music proves the exemplary medium for further exploring and developing his 'rhizomatic' conception of thought.

The volume provides a much-needed addition to the growing body of secondary work on Deleuze and will be of interest to students and researchers working across a diverse range of disiciplines, including philosophy and cultural and critical theory as well as art history, musicology and ethnomusicology.

Features

• The first book on Deleuze in relation to music covering all of the key Deleuzian texts
• Covers different types of music, jazz, pop music, electronic music, heavy metal and improvised music
• Demonstrate how music functions in Deleuze's work, exploring how ideas of melody, rhythm, harmony, counterpoint and the refrain shape his philosophical thinking.

This is the first book to use complexity theory to open up the 'geophilosophy' developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus, Anti-Oedipus and What is Philosophy?. Written by a philosopher and a geographer in a clear style, with a practical orientation and interdisciplinary focus, the Guide enables readers to grasp the basics of complexity theory (the study of self-organisation and emergence in material systems), while the Glossary eases the difficulty of applying this science to Deleuze and Guattari's often perplexing terminology.

Deleuze and Geophilosophy is thoroughly pragmatic: it asks not what the earth means, but how it works. It provides a common conceptual framework within which physical and human geographers can work together alongside other social scientists, cultural studies practitioners, and philosophers in interdisciplinary teams to explore the entangled flows, lines, grids, and spaces of our world. The book will be of interest to all those working in disciplines at the intersections of culture, nature, space, and history: anthropology, art and architecture theory, communication studies, geography, Marxism and historical materialism, philosophy, postcolonial theory, urban studies, and many other disciplines.

Key Features

• Explores a new aspect of Deleuzian thought - 'geophilosophy' (geography & philosophy)
• The first part of the book explains the basics of complexity theory
• Half of the book is a Glossary which helps readers with Deleuze and Guattari's perplexing terminology
• Emphasis on 'bodies politic' in geophilosophy and complexity theory which has never before been linked in such a way

Although he is best known as a philosopher, Deleuze's interests were extremely far reaching - in addition to his important critiques of major philosophers like Kant, Hume and Spinoza, he also wrote extensively on literature, cinema and art. Characteristically, he didn't apply philosophy to the arts, he always tried to extract philosophy from them.

Deleuze wrote widely on literature, but always with an eye to extract something new and interesting, never merely to interpret. Indeed, his most notorious slogan was 'don't ask what it means? Ask how it works?' He wrote monographs on Proust, Kafka and Sacher-Masoch. He also wrote essays on Beckett, Melville, Jarry, T.E. Lawrence, D.H. Lawrence, and Whitman.

The essays collected in this volume are the first devoted solely to Deleuze's work on literature. Written by leading Deleuzian scholars the essays focus on two main questions: how does Deleuze read literary texts? And how can we read texts in a Deleuzian way?

Contributors: Bruce Baugh, Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, Andre Pierre Colombat, Tom Conley, Hugh Crawford, Marlene Goldman, Eugene W. Holland, Greg Lambert, John Marks, Timothy S. Murphy and Kenneth Surin.

Ever since Deleuze and Guattari provocatively declared that all 'becoming' must go by way of a 'becoming-woman' their work has been the subject of intense feminist interrogation. This volume highlights the key points of this ongoing inquiry, focusing particularly on the implications of Deleuze's work for a specifically feminist philosophy. Deleuze and Feminist Theory brings together the work of some of Deleuze's finest commentators and today's most important feminist thinkers. For Deleuze, reading a philosopher or thinker ought never to be a question of blind allegiance or assessing the correctness of methods. Engagement with a thinker is most productive when considered in terms of what a body of thought can do, how concepts create events and how thinking can mobilise desire. It is in this spirit that the essays in this book engage with the work of Deleuze, and Deleuze and Guattari. Deleuze is neither wholeheartedly embraced as an answer to feminist questions, nor rejected as yet one more masculinist error in the history of reason. Rather, Deleuze presents feminism with a challenge and a question: how to think? The work gathered here responds to this challenge with a series of further questions opened by the Deleuzean project. How might desire be thought positively? What can a body do? How might women become? And how might feminism be thought as an event? Including new work by Elizabeth Grosz, Rosi Braidotti and Dorothea Olkowski and essays on film, the colonial imaginary, desire and embodiment, Deleuze and Feminist Theory offers asustained consideration of the impact of Deleuze on feminist thought.

Key Features

• Provides an introduction to Deleuze for those working in feminist theory and philosophy
• Includes new work by major feminist theorists
• Provides a broad approach to several areas of Deleuze's work, including film, politics, literature and feminism
• Relates Deleuze's work to its historical and philosophical context